Tax Return notes Tax year 6 April 2014 to 5 April 2015 (2014–15)

Use these notes to help you fill in your tax return These notes will help you to fill in your paper tax return. Alternatively, why not complete it online? • it’s quick, easy and secure • you will have an extra 3 months to send it to us • you don’t have to complete it all at once – you can

save your details and finish it later if you want

A For more information about Self Assessment Online, go to www.gov.uk/how-to-send-self-assessment-online

If you have not completed a tax return online before, go to online.hmrc.gov.uk/registration Once you have signed up, we will post you an Activation Code. This can take 7 working days to arrive (or up to 21 days if you’re setting up your account from abroad) so please register in plenty of time.

If you don’t think you need to complete a tax return for this year, go to www.gov.uk/check-if-you-need-a-tax-return

Contents What makes up your tax return TRG 2

Starting your tax return TRG 3

Income TRG 4

Tax reliefs TRG 7

Student Loan repayments TRG 9

High Income Child Benefit Charge TRG 10

Service companies TRG 10

Finishing your tax return TRG 10

Signing your form and sending it back TRG 11

A rough guide to your tax bill TRG 12

Tax return deadlines and penalties • If you want to fill in a paper tax return, you

must send it to us by 31 October 2015 • If you decide to fill in your tax return online or

you miss the paper deadline, you must send it online by 31 January 2016 – but, if you want us to use your tax code to collect any tax you owe, you need to file online by 30 December 2015

If we don’t receive your tax return by the deadlines, you will have to pay a £100 penalty – even if you don’t owe any tax.

A To find out more about penalties, go to www.gov.uk/self-assessment-tax-returns/penalties

Before you start You may need the following documents to help you fill in the tax return: • your forms P60, ‘End of Year Certificate’,

P11D, ‘Expenses or benefits’ or P45, ‘Details of employee leaving work’ and your P2, ‘PAYE Coding Notice’

• if you work for yourself, your profit or loss account or your business records

• your bank statements, building society passbooks, dividend counterfoils or investment brokers’ schedules

• personal pension contributions certificates

Do not send any receipts, accounts or other paperwork with your tax return, unless we ask for them. If you do, it will take longer to deal with your tax return and will delay any repayment.

How to fill in your tax return If you fill in a paper tax return please: • read the ‘Most people file online’ section

on the front of the form • enter your figures carefully – if you make a

mistake, we may ask you to pay too much tax

If you ask someone else to fill in your tax return, you are still responsible for the information on it. And you must sign the form.

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What makes up your tax return We have sent you a tax return that we think matches your personal circumstances. But you need to make sure the form has all the relevant supplementary pages.

Please read the first 2 pages of your tax return (and read notes 1 to 9 below) before you fill in the form. If you put an ‘X’ in any of the ‘Yes’ boxes on page TR 2, you need to fill in and send us the supplementary pages for that income or gain too. If you don’t, we will treat your tax return as incomplete and send it back to you.

A If you need any supplementary pages and notes to help you complete them, you can: • print them from our website, go to

www.gov.uk/self-assessment-forms-and-helpsheets, or • phone the Self Assessment Orderline on 0300 200 3610

1 Employment You should fill in the ‘Employment’ page if you: • were employed in full-time, part-time or

casual employment • received income as a company director • held an office, such as chairperson, secretary or

treasurer and received income for that work • worked for 1 person through another company

or partnership, for example, agency work • were resident in the UK and received an income

from any foreign employment

You will need a separate ‘Employment’ page for each job, directorship or office.

If you were a company director and didn’t receive any income or benefits, but expect to do so in future, just complete boxes 4, 5 and 6 of the Employment page. This will mean you don’t have to re-register for Self Assessment.

2 Self-employment If you worked for yourself or you were a subcontractor working in the building industry, fill in the ‘Self-employment’ pages. If you worked with someone else in partnership, use the ‘Partnership’ pages.

There are 2 types of ‘Self-employment’ pages. If your business is: • straightforward and your annual turnover was

less than £81,000, use the ‘Self-employment’ short pages

• more complex or your annual turnover was £81,000 or more, or you need to adjust your profits, use the ‘Self-employment’ full pages

You will need separate ‘Self-employment’ pages for each business.

3 Partnership There are 2 types of ‘Partnership’ pages – short ones and full ones. Each partner must fill in their own ‘Partnership’ pages, and 1 partner will have to complete the ‘Partnership Tax Return’.

4 UK property Fill in the ‘UK property’ pages if you received income from: • any UK property rental • furnished holiday letting from properties in

the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) • letting furnished rooms in your own home.

But if you provided meals and other services, you will need to fill in the ‘Self-employment’ pages

5 Foreign Use the ‘Foreign’ pages if you received: • interest (over £2,000) and income from

overseas savings – if your only foreign income was untaxed foreign interest below £2000, you can put this amount in box 2 on page TR 3 of your tax return instead (see TRG 4)

• dividends (over £300) from foreign companies • distributions and ‘reported income’ from

offshore funds – this is taxable income accumulating in an offshore fund that you have not yet received

• overseas pensions (not lump sums from pension schemes), social security benefits and royalties

• income from land and property abroad (not furnished holiday lettings)

• discretionary income from non-resident trusts • income or benefits from a person abroad or

a non-resident company or trust (including a UK trust that has either been, or has received, income from, a non-resident trust)

• gains on foreign life insurance policies or on disposals in offshore funds

You should also fill in the ‘Foreign’ pages if you want to claim Foreign Tax Credit Relief or Special Withholding Tax on income you report on other pages.

6 Trusts etc Fill in the ‘Trusts etc’ pages if you were: • a beneficiary of a trust (not a ‘bare’ trust) or

settlement, or • the settlor of a trust or settlement whose income

is deemed to be yours

If you received income from the estate of a person who has died, do not fill in the ‘Trusts etc’ pages if: • you were entitled to a fixed sum of money or

a specific asset

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• your legacy was paid with interest (put the interest in box 1 or box 2 on page TR 3 of your tax return)

• that income came from a specific estate asset, for example, rents from an estate property

7 Capital gains summary

Fill in the ‘Capital gains summary’ pages and attach your computations if: • you sold or disposed of chargeable assets which

were worth more than £44,000 • your chargeable gains before taking off any

losses were more than £11,000 • you want to claim an allowable capital loss or

make a capital gains claim or election for the year

• you were not domiciled in the UK and are claiming to pay tax on your foreign gains on the remittance basis

• you are chargeable on the remittance basis and have remitted foreign chargeable gains of an earlier year

8 Residence, remittance basis etc You should fill in the ‘Residence, remittance basis etc’ pages if you: • are not a UK resident • are eligible to overseas workday relief • arrived in the UK during the 2014–15 tax year

and became a UK resident • want to claim split-year treatment • have a domicile outside the UK • have foreign income or capital gains and want to

use the remittance basis for 2014–15

9 Additional information Fill in these pages if you have: • interest from UK securities, deeply discounted

securities, accrued income profits and disguised interest

• life insurance gains • stock dividends, non-qualifying distributions

or close company loans written-off • post cessation business receipts • income from share schemes • received lump sums or compensation from your

employer, or foreign earnings not taxable in the UK

• received income from a former employer covered by third party arrangements or ‘disguised remuneration’ rules

You should also fill in the ‘Additional information’ pages if you: • wish to claim

— Married Couple’s Allowance — employment deductions — tax reliefs, for example, on

maintenance payments�— relief for losses from other income,

2015–16 trading or capital losses�• are liable to tax charges on pension savings

(including overseas pension schemes) • need to tell us about a tax avoidance scheme

A For information about the tax charges on pension savings, go to www.gov.uk/tax-on-your-private-pension/overview

A Your tax return should have all the relevant pages. If it doesn’t, you will need to get the supplementary pages and relevant notes to help you complete them: • print them from our website, go to

www.gov.uk/self-assessment-forms-and-helpsheets, or • phone the Self Assessment Orderline on 0300 200 3610

Starting your tax return Your personal details

Box 1 Your date of birth Make sure you tell us your date of birth. If you don’t, you may not get all the allowances you are entitled to.

Box 2 Your name and address If the details are different or missing, for example, because you printed the tax return from the internet, write the correct details in or under the ‘Issue address’ on the front of the form.

Box 4 Your National Insurance number If your National Insurance number is not at the top of your tax return, it will be on: • a payslip, P45 or your P60 for the year • a P2, ‘PAYE Coding Notice’ • any letter from us or the Department for Work

and Pensions

Example of a National Insurance number

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Income Interest and dividends from UK banks, building societies, etc This includes: • any interest you receive on bank, building society

and other savings accounts • dividends and other qualifying distributions from

UK companies and UK authorised unit trusts or open-ended investment companies

• income from purchased life annuities • interest you receive in non-cash form

Don’t include any interest from Individual Savings Account (ISAs), Ulster Savings Certificates, Save As You Earn schemes or as part of an award by a UK court for damages.

We usually treat income from investments held in joint names as belonging to the two of you in equal shares. However, if you hold unequal shares, you can elect to receive the income and pay tax on those proportions. Only put your share of any joint income on the tax return.

If a nominee receives investment income on your behalf, or if you are a beneficiary of a bare trust, fill in boxes 1 to 4 – not the ‘Trusts etc’ pages.

If you make gifts to any of your children who are under 18 that produces more than £100 income (before tax), you need to include the whole amount of the income in your tax return.

If your bank or building society pays you an alternative finance return or profit share return instead of interest, put the amount in box 1 if it is taxed, or box 2 if it is not.

UK interest etc Include in box 1 or box 2 any interest from: • bank and building society savings, including

internet accounts • UK authorised unit trusts, open-ended

investment companies and investment trusts • National Savings & Investments accounts and

savings bonds • taxable interest received on compensation

payments, for example, payment protection insurance (PPI)

• certificates of tax deposit • credit unions and friendly societies

Don’t include interest from UK government securities (gilts), or interest from bonds, loan notes or securities issued by UK companies. These go in the ‘Additional information’ pages.

Box 1 Taxed UK interest etc – the net amount after tax has been taken off Copy the net interest details from your bank statements, building society passbooks or electronic vouchers from authorised unit trusts, open-ended investment companies or investment trust companies. If you have more than one account, add up all your net interest and put the total in box 1.

Include any net income (after tax has been taken off) from a purchased life annuity. Use the details on your payment certificate and only put the income part of the payment in box 1. Don’t include the rest of the payment.

If you received cash or shares following the takeover or merger of building societies, you may have to pay tax on the income. If you do, include it in box 1. If you are not sure, put the amount in box 16 and give us details in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7.

Box 2 Untaxed UK interest etc – amounts which have not had tax taken off If you have an account that pays you gross interest (for example, because you have filled in a form R85, ‘Getting your interest without tax taken off’), put the gross amount in box 2.

If your only foreign income was untaxed foreign interest (of up to £2,000), you may put the amount in box 2 instead of filling in the ‘Foreign’ pages. You must put the name of the country where the interest arose and the amount you received (in UK pounds) in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7.

If it was more than £2,000, you will need to fill in the ‘Foreign’ pages.

UK dividends Box 3 Dividends from UK companies – the net amount, do not include the tax credit Your dividend voucher will show your shares in the company, the dividend rate, and the tax credit and dividend payable. Put the total dividend payments in box 3 – don’t add on the tax credit.

Include any dividends from employee share schemes. Don’t include: • Property Income Distributions from Real

Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) or Property Authorised Investment Funds (PAIFs) – these go in box 16, and the tax taken off in box 18

• stock dividends or non-qualifying dividends – these go in the ‘Additional information’ pages

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Box 4 Other dividends – do not include the tax credit This includes dividend distributions from authorised unit trusts, open-ended investment companies, and investment trusts. Put the amount on your dividend voucher in box 4 – don’t add on the tax credit.

Include in box 4 any dividend from accumulation units or shares that are automatically reinvested. Don’t include any ‘equalisation’ amounts.

Box 5 Foreign dividends (up to £300) If your only foreign income was taxed dividends, put the net amount in British pounds in box 5 instead of on the ‘Foreign’ pages. Put the foreign tax taken off in box 6.

UK pensions, annuities and other state benefits received Not all benefits are taxable. Don’t include the following in boxes 7 to 12: • Attendance Allowance, Bereavement Payment

or Personal Independence Payments • State Pension Credit, Working Tax Credit,

Child Tax Credit or Universal Credit • additions to State Pensions or benefits for

dependent children • income-related Employment and Support

Allowance, Jobfinder’s Grant or Employment Zone payments

• Maternity Allowance • War widow’s pension and some pensions paid

to other forces dependants • pensions and other payments for disability,

injury or illness due to military service • overseas pensions – these go on the

‘Foreign’ pages

A For more about what is and what is not taxable income, go to www.gov.uk/income-tax

Box 7 State Pension

Use the letter ‘About the general increase in benefits’ that the Pension Service sent you to find your weekly State Pension amount.

Add up the amount you were entitled to receive from 6 April 2014 to 5 April 2015 and put the total in box 7. Don’t include any amount you received for Attendance Allowance.

If your State Pension changed during the year or you only received it for part of the year, multiply each amount by the number of weeks that you were entitled to receive it. Add up your amounts carefully.

If you do not have the letter from the Pension Service, phone them on 0345 606 0265 (textphone 0800 731 7339) and ask them for the information.

If you received a lump sum because you deferred your State Pension, put the amount in box 8.

Don’t include State Pension Credit, the Christmas bonus, Winter Fuel Payment or any addition for a dependant child.

Boxes 8 and 9 State Pension lump sum Only fill in box 8 if you deferred your State Pension for at least 12 months and chose to receive it as a one-off lump sum in 2014–15. Put the gross amount (before tax taken off) in box 8 and the tax taken off in box 9. Don’t include any lump sum amount in box 7.�

Box 10 Pensions (other than State Pension), retirement annuities and taxable triviality payments Your pension payer will give you a P60, ‘End of Year Certificate’ or similar statement. Add up your total UK retirement annuities and pensions (not the State Pension), and put the total gross amount (before tax taken off) in box 10.

This includes pensions: • from your, or your late husband’s, wife’s or

civil partner’s, employer • from personal pension plans and stakeholder

pension plans • paid as drawdown pensions from a registered

pension scheme • from Additional Voluntary Contributions schemes • for injuries at work or for work-related illnesses • from service in the Armed Forces • from retirement annuity contracts or trust schemes

It also includes the taxable part of any lump sums you received instead of a small pension (‘trivial lump sum’).

Please give us the following details in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7: • details of your pension or annuity payer and

your reference number • your PAYE reference • the payment before tax and the amount of tax

taken off

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10% deduction If you receive a UK pension for former service to an overseas government, only 90% of the basic pension is taxable in the UK. Take 10% off the value of the pension before you put the amount in box 10.

The territories are: • any country forming part of

Her Majesty’s dominions • any Commonwealth country (excluding the UK) • any territory under Her Majesty’s protection

Box 11 Tax taken off box 10 Use the P60 or certificate your pension payer gave you, and put the total amount of tax taken off all your pensions in box 11.

Example of tax return, box 11

If your P60 shows that you received a refund, it will have an ‘R’ next to it. Put a minus sign in the shaded box in front of the figure.

Box 12 Taxable Incapacity Benefit and contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance Not all Incapacity Benefit is taxable. It is not taxable in the first 28 weeks of incapacity or if your incapacity began before 13 April 1995 and you have been getting it for the same illness ever since.�

All contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance is taxable.�

Use the P60(IB), P45(IB), P60(U) or P45(U) that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) gave you. Put the total taxable amount of your benefit or allowance in box 12 and any tax taken off your payments in box 13.�

Box 14 Jobseeker’s Allowance Use the P60(IB), P45(IB), P60(U) or P45(U) that DWP gave you and put the total amount of Jobseeker’s Allowance in box 14.

If you stopped claiming before 5 April 2015, you will find the total amount on your P45(U).

Box 15 Total of any other taxable State Pensions and benefits If you had any of the following, add up your payments and put the total in box 15. • Bereavement Allowance or Widow’s Pension • Widowed Parent’s Allowance or Widowed

Mother’s Allowance

• Industrial Death Benefit • Carer’s Allowance • Statutory Sick Pay or Statutory Maternity,

Paternity or Adoption Pay but only if paid by HM Revenue & Customs (not your employer)

Don’t include the Christmas Bonus and Winter Fuel Payment, or any Cold Weather Payments.

Other UK income not included on supplementary pages

Box 16 Other taxable income This includes: • casual earnings, commission or freelance income • business receipts where your business has ceased • Property Income Distributions (PIDs) from

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Property Authorised Investment Funds (PAIFs)

• payments from a personal insurance policy for sickness or disability benefits

• income from unauthorised unit trusts • taxable annual payments • profits from certificates of deposit • non-cash benefits you received for being a

former employee

Make sure you tell us what this income is in box 20.

Don’t include any income from your employment, self-employment or capital gains.

Box 17 Total amount of allowable expenses This includes any expenses that: • you had to spend solely to earn the income • were not for private or personal use • were not capital items, such as a computer

A For more information on allowable expenses, go to www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees

Box 19 Benefit from pre-owned assets Pre-owned assets (property) includes land and buildings or chattels, for example, works of art, furniture, antiques, cars or yachts, or any assets held in a settlement. You may have to pay a tax charge on benefits received if you previously owned or helped to buy assets (pre-owned assets (POA)).

You may have to pay tax if: • during 2014–15 you

— occupied land without paying a full market rent for it, or

— used or enjoyed goods without paying fully for the benefit, or

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— could benefit from property you have settled if income from the property is treated as yours, and

• at some time since 17 March 1986 you — owned the property you are now

benefiting from, or — owned and sold property and used the

proceeds to buy the property you are now benefiting from, or

— gave someone else property, including cash, and they used it to buy the property you are now benefiting from, or

— settled assets into the trust that you can benefit on

Please tell us in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7, how you worked out the benefit or charge that you put in box 19.

Don’t include the benefit if: • the property could be liable to Inheritance Tax

when you die • the total benefit for the year is £5,000 or less • you made the cash gift before 6 April 2007

A For more information about pre-owned assets and help working out your benefit: • go to www.hmrc.gov.uk/manualsa-z and read

page IHTM44000 in the Inheritance Tax Manual, or • phone the Probate and Inheritance Tax Helpline

on 0300 123 1072

Tax reliefs This section covers tax relief for payments to pension schemes, charities and for Blind Person’s Allowance. If you wish to claim other reliefs, for example, Married Couple’s Allowance where one of the couple was born before 6 April 1935, please use the ‘Additional information’ pages.

Paying into registered pension schemes and overseas pension schemes Fill in boxes 1 to 3 for payments to registered pension schemes and box 4 for payments to overseas pension schemes.

You can claim tax relief on your personal contributions to a registered pension scheme if you paid them before you reached age 75 and have:

• been a UK resident in the tax year, or • had taxable UK earnings, such as employment

income or profits from self-employment, or • had UK taxable earnings from overseas Crown

employment (or your spouse or civil partner did), or�

• been a UK resident when you joined the pension scheme, and at any time in the 5 tax years before 2014–15

Don’t include any amounts for: • personal term assurance contributions • your employer’s own contributions • contributions taken from your pay

before it was taxed

A For more information, go to www.hmrc.gov.uk/helpsheet347

Limits to relief The maximum personal contributions you can claim tax relief on is either: • up to the amount of your taxable UK earnings in

the tax year, or • up to £3,600 gross (that is, £2,880 you paid

plus £720 tax relief claimed by your pension provider) to a ‘relief at source’ scheme only

The limits also apply to overseas pension schemes.

The Annual Allowance is £40,000 for 2014–15. If your contributions and other pension inputs are more than the Annual Allowance, you should also fill in boxes 7 to 12 on page Ai 4 of the ‘Additional information’ pages.

A For more information go to, www.hmrc.gov.uk/helpsheet345

Personal contributions that had tax relief in the scheme Box 1 Payments to registered pension schemes operating ‘relief at source’

Under the ‘relief at source’ system, your pension provider claims basic rate tax relief (of 20%) on your personal contributions and adds that to your pension pot.

Put the total amount in box 1 – that is, your personal contributions paid to the scheme, plus the basic rate tax relief. Include any one-off contributions you made in the year and give us the details of any one off contributions in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7.

Use the pension certificate or receipt you get from the administrator to fill in box 1 or work out the figure by dividing the amount you actually paid by 80 and multiplying the result by 100.

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Example Emma paid £700 into her pension scheme. She puts £875 in box 1 (£700 divided by 80 and multiplied by 100), which is her net payment plus the tax relief of £175 (£875 at 20%).

If you pay tax at 40% or 45% you should still fill in box 1 with the amount you paid in plus the basic rate (20%) tax relief. We will work out the extra tax relief due to you over the basic rate claimed by your pension provider.

Personal contributions with full relief still to claim Box 2 Payments to a retirement annuity contract If your retirement annuity contract (RAC) provider does not use the ‘relief at source’ scheme they do not claim the basic rate (20%) tax relief on your behalf. Put your total personal contributions to the RAC in 2014–15 in box 2.

Box 3 Payments to your employer’s scheme which were not deducted from your pay before tax In some schemes, an employer takes your personal contributions from your pay before they tax what’s left. If you (or someone else who is not your employer) paid into such a scheme and no tax relief was given, you can claim that tax relief now. Put the total unrelieved amount you paid in 2014–15 in box 3.

Box 4 Payments to an overseas pension scheme You may get tax relief if you are eligible for migrant member relief, transitional corresponding relief or relief under a Double Taxation Agreement. Put the amount that qualifies for tax relief in box 4.

Charitable giving Tell us about the gifts to charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) that you are claiming relief for.

A For more information about giving to charity, go to www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity

For an A to Z of registered CASCs, go to www.hmrc.gov.uk/casc/clubs.htm

Gift Aid Gift Aid is a tax relief for gifts of money to charities and CASCs.�

If you pay tax at the higher rate, or additional rate, you are entitled to additional tax relief – the calculation works it out for you.

If you were born before 6 April 1948 and pay tax at the basic rate (20%), your Gift Aid payments could reduce your tax bill so make sure you fill in box 1 on page TR 1.�

Box 5 Gift Aid payments made in the year to 5 April 2015 Put the total Gift Aid payments you made from 6 April 2014 to 5 April 2015 in this box. Don’t include any payments under Payroll Giving.

Box 6 Total of any ‘one-off’ payments in box 5 To help us get your PAYE tax code right, if you have one, put any one-off payments you included in box 5 in box 6. These will be Gift Aid payments made from 6 April 2014 to 5 April 2015 that you do not intend to repeat in the year to 5 April 2016.

Box 7 Gift Aid payments made in the year to 5 April 2015 but treated as if made in the year to 5 April 2014 Put in box 7 any Gift Aid payments that you made between 6 April 2014 and 5 April 2015, which you want us to treat as if you made them in the tax year 6 April 2013 to 5 April 2014.

Box 8 Gift Aid payments made after 5 April 2015 but to be treated as if made in the year to 5 April 2015 If you want us to treat Gift Aid payments you made between 6 April 2015 and the date you send us your tax return, as if you made them in the year to 5 April 2015, put the amount in box 8. For example, if you know you will not be paying higher rate tax this year but you did in the year to 5 April 2015.

Box 9 Value of qualifying shares or securities gifted to charity You can claim tax relief for any qualifying shares and securities gifted, or sold at less than their market value, to charities. Qualifying shares and securities are: • those listed on a recognised stock exchange or

dealt in on a designated market in the UK • units in an authorised unit trust • shares in an open-ended investment company • an interest in an offshore fund

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Put in box 9 the net benefit of the shares or securities, minus any amounts or benefits received from the charity. Add any incidental costs for the transfer, such as brokers’ fees or legal fees.

A For more information about charitable giving, go to www.hmrc.gov.uk/helpsheet342

Box 10 Value of qualifying land and buildings gifted to charity You can claim tax relief for any gift or sale at less than market value, of a ‘qualifying interest in land’ – that is, the whole of your beneficial interest in that freehold or leasehold land in the UK.

Put in box 10 the net benefit of the land, minus any amounts or benefits received from the charity. Add any costs of the gift or sale, such as legal or valuer’s fees.

Box 11 Value of qualifying investments gifted to non-UK charities in boxes 9 and 10

You can claim relief for gifts of qualifying shares, securities, land or buildings to certain non-UK charities. If any amounts included in box 9 or box 10 are to charities outside the UK, put the amount in box 11 and give us details in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7.

Box 12 Gift Aid payments to non-UK charities in box 5

You can claim relief for Gift Aid donations to certain non-UK charities. If any amounts included in box 5 are to charities outside the UK, put the amount in box 12 and give us details in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7.

Blind Person’s Allowance

Box 14 Enter the name of the local authority or other register If you live in England or Wales, the local authority will put your name on their register of sight impaired (blind) people when you show them an eye specialist’s certificate stating you are blind or severely sight impaired.

If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland and are not on a register, you can claim the allowance if your eyesight is so bad you cannot do any work for which eyesight is essential. Write ‘Scotland’ or ‘Northern Ireland’ in box 14.

Box 15 If you want your spouse’s, or civil partner’s, surplus allowance Only put an ‘X’ in this box, if your spouse or civil partner has claimed Blind Person’s Allowance but does not have enough taxable income to use it all, and you want to claim the surplus.

Box 16 If you want your spouse, or civil partner, to have your surplus allowance Only put an ‘X’ in the box if you claim the allowance but cannot use it all, and you want to give the balance to your spouse or civil partner.

If you put an ‘X’ in box 15 or box 16, please tell us your spouse’s or civil partner’s name and National Insurance number in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7.

Student Loan repayments Once the Student Loans Company (SLC) write to tell you the date that you should start repaying your Income Contingent Repayment student loan, you can then fill in the student loan boxes.

Boxes 1 to 3 Put an ‘X’ in box 1 if you have received a letter from the SLC.�

In box 2, put the amount of any PAYE employment student loan deductions.�

Finally, put an ‘X’ in box 3 if you think that you may fully repay your loan within the next 2 years.�

A For more detailed information about repaying your Student Loan, go to www.gov.uk/government/ publications/student-loans-collection-of-loans-through-self-assessment or the SLC website studentloanrepayment.co.uk

High Income Child Benefit Charge Fill in this section if during the tax year 2014–15 (that is, from 6 April 2014 to 5 April 2015): • your individual income was over £50,000, and • your income was higher than your partner’s

income, and either — you or your partner were entitled to receive

Child Benefit, or — someone else claimed Child Benefit for

a child who lived with you�

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Box 1 Put the total amount of Child Benefit you or your partner were entitled to receive during the tax year 2014–15. This is the amount of Child Benefit for a full week, where a Monday falls within the tax year. For 2014–15, the first week starts on 7 April 2014 and the last week starts on 30 March 2015. Also put in box 1, the amount of Child Benefit received if you or your partner: • started to get Child Benefit after 7 April 2014

– put the amount from the date it started to 5 April 2015

• stopped getting Child Benefit before 6 April 2015 – put the amount received up to that date

Box 2

Put the total number of children you or your partner were entitled to receive Child Benefit for on 5 April 2015.

Box 3

If you or your partner stopped receiving all Child Benefit payments before 6 April 2015, put the date the payments stopped in box 3.

A For help working out your Child Benefit payments, go to www.gov.uk/child-benefit-tax-calculator

For more about the High Income Child Benefit Charge, go to www.gov.uk/child-benefit-tax-charge

Service companies You worked through a service company if: • you performed services for a client • you worked under a contract between the client

and a company that you were a shareholder of during the tax year

Do not fill in this box if all the income was employment income.

Example Helen works through a service company. Her salary is £15,000. She also receives £55,000 worth of dividends – £50,000 from the service company and £5,000 from the shares portfolio.

Helen must exclude the shares portfolio dividends when working out her total income. She puts £65,000 in the service companies box (£15,000 salary plus £50,000 service company dividends).

Finishing your tax return

Calculating your tax If we receive your paper tax return by the deadline, we will work out if you have any tax to pay and tell you before 31 January 2016. We will send you a tax calculation that also tells you if you have to make payments on account for 2014–15.

If you want to work out the amount of tax that you owe or may be repaid, use ‘A rough guide to your tax bill’ on page TRG 12 of these notes.

Tax refunded or set off This may be a repayment of CIS deductions (if you work in the construction industry), PAYE tax or tax paid on savings income. It may also be an amount we reallocate to an existing debt.

If you have not paid enough tax

Boxes 2 and 3 If you owe less than £3,000 tax for 2014–15, we will try to collect it through your wages or pension from 6 April 2016. But, we can only do this if you send us your paper tax return by 31 October 2015 or file online by 30 December 2015 and: • you have enough wages or pension to collect

the tax you owe • it does not double the amount of tax you pay

on this income • it does not cause you to pay more than half

of this income in tax

Only put an ‘X’ in box 2 if you do not want us to do this and would prefer to pay any tax through your Self Assessment by 31 January 2016.

If you are likely to owe tax for 2015–16, we will try to collect it through your wages or pension from 6 April 2015. If the income is more than £10,000 we will not normally do this.

You may owe this tax if you receive: • Child Benefit payments and your income is

over £50,000, or • savings or investments income, or • property income, or • casual earnings or commission

Only put an ‘X’ in box 3 if you do not want us to do this and would prefer to pay any tax through your Self Assessment by 31 January 2017.

A For more information about paying directly to us, go to www.gov.uk/pay-self-assessment-tax-bill

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If you have paid too much tax If you paid your tax by credit or debit card, we will always try to repay back to your card first before making any repayment as requested by you in boxes 4 to 14.

Boxes 4 to 8 Please fill in your account details carefully. If they are wrong it will delay any repayment.

If you have a nominee put their account details in each of the boxes.

Box 5 Name of account holder The name of the account will be on your statements or chequebook. If it is a joint account, make sure you enter both names.

Boxes 6 and 7 Your branch sort code and account number will be on your statements or chequebook. Please make sure the number of digits is the same as on your account.

Box 8 Building society reference number Your account may have an extra reference number. It may be called a roll number, account reference or account number. Only fill in box 8 if you want us to send a repayment to your building society.

Box 9 If you do not have a bank or building society account Only put an ‘X’ in the box if you do not have a bank or building society account.

Boxes 10 to 14 Only fill in boxes 10 to 14 if you have included your nominee’s account details in boxes 4 to 9.

Your tax adviser, if you have one

Box 15 Your tax adviser’s name Please tell us your tax adviser’s name. If they work for a firm or a company, put the firm or company name in box 15.

Any other information Please put any additional information in box 19. This may include: • details of any untaxed UK interest and

foreign interest up to £2,000 • any one-off pension payments you made

• any gifts you made to charities outside the UK • details of any estimates you have used • the name and National Insurance number of

your spouse or civil partner

Signing your form and sending it back Please make sure you sign and date the form. If you forget, we will send it back to you.

Box 20 If this tax return contains provisional or estimated figures If you put an ‘X’ in the box, you must tell us in ‘Any other information’ on page TR 7 why you have used provisional amounts and when you expect to give us your final figures.

Boxes 23 to 26 You only need to fill in these boxes if you: • are an executor dealing with a deceased’s estate

from 6 April 2014 to the date the person died • are appointed by a UK court to complete

a tax return on behalf of someone who is not mentally capable of understanding it

• have an enduring or lasting power of attorney to act on behalf of someone who is not physically or mentally capable of filling in a tax return

If you have not previously sent evidence of your appointment, please send the original document with this tax return. We will send it back to you within 15 working days.

More help if you need it If you are unable to go online: • phone the Self Assessment Orderline on

0300 200 3610 for paper copies of the helpsheets and forms

• phone the Self Assessment Helpline on 0300 200 3310 for help with your tax return

We have a range of services for disabled people. These include guidance in Braille, audio and large print. Most of our forms are also available in large print. Please contact our helplines for more information.

These notes are for guidance only and reflect the position at the time of writing. They do not affect the right of appeal.

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A rough guide to your tax bill

Add up your income 1don’t include any company dividends £

A Personal Allowance £10,000 – if you were born on or after 6 April 1948 and your total income, including company dividends, is less than £100,000.

£10,500 – if you were born between 6 April 1938 and 5 April 1948 and your total income, including company dividends, is less than £27,000.

£10,660 – if you were born before 6 April 1938 and your total income, including company dividends, is less than £27,000.

If your total income is between £100,000 and £120,000 reduce £10,000 by £1 for every £2 your income exceeds £100,000. If your total income is £120,000 or more, your Personal Allowance reduces to zero.

Add together Retirement annuity premiums (box 2 on page TR 4)

Value of shares, securities, land gifted to charity

Tax-free Personal Allowance (see aside)

£

£

£

£ £2Blind Person’s Allowance, if claimed, of £2,230

£3Total box 1 minus box 2

Work out the tax due on 3: The first £31,865* x 20% *£31,865 can be increased by any personal pension payments (box 1 on page TR 4) and grossed up Gift Aid (box 5 on page TR 4 x 100/80) £

£The next £118,135 x 40%

£ £4

£

Remainder x 45%

If you are taxable at 40% or 45% Dividends and tax credits x 22.5% on the difference between £118,135 and the amount of income from (3) that has been charged at 40%

£ £5Remainder x 27.5%

£

£

Total add boxes 4 and 5 6

If you are self-employed or in partnership Class 4 NICs on (profits minus £7,956) x 9% 7

Capital Gains Tax (on gains over £11,000) Gains that qualify for Entrepreneurs’ Relief x 10%

Other gains x 18% on the difference between £31,865* and the amount of income from (3) that has been charged at 20%

£

£

£ £8Remainder of other gains x 28%

£9Total add boxes 6, 7 and 8

Minus any tax paid – use the figures on your P60 or P45 and any tax deducted from trading income (for example, subcontractor deductions) and any tax deducted from bank or building society interest received £10

Total tax bill box 9 minus box 10 £11

This is not precise but it will show you if you have to pay any tax by 31 January 2016 or if we owe you a repayment. It does not take account of the 10% savings rate, Married Couple’s Allowance, Student Loan repayments, the High Income Child Benefit Charge or Foreign Tax Credit Relief.

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